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Eastern Wisdom, ed. Mark Watts, MJF Books. ISBN 1-56731-491-0, three books in one volume: What is Zen?, What is Tao?, and An Introduction to Meditation ( Still the Mind). Assembled from transcriptions of audio tape recordings made by his son Mark, of lectures and seminars given by Alan Watts during the last decade of his life. Cloud-hidden, Whereabouts Unknown: A Mountain Journal, Pantheon Books. Also published in Canada in 1974 by Jonathan Cape, ISBN 0224009729, 0-394-71999-9

Other than inferred references to the Erik body and its sense organs and point of reference, my actual experiences are about common things, be they material or ideational. I have no secrets, no private life which isn't predefined by common, public objects. I think, I imagine in terms which either are the lingua franca of everyone or which might easily become so. Nonsense, illustrations by Greg Irons (a collection of literary nonsense), San Francisco: Stolen Paper Editions

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Watts, Alan W. (1937). The legacy of Asia and Western man: a study of the middle way. London: John Murray. In The Book, Alan Watts provides us with a much-needed answer to the problem of personal identity, distilling and adapting the Hindu philosophy of Vedanta. Alan Watts invites readers to immerse themselves in 12 of his pinnacle thinking sessions in this best book. Carefully chosen from hundreds of recordings by Watts’ son, this book consists of seminars that captures Watts at his most brilliant. He teaches things like how to break the limits of your rational mind and expanding your awareness. The meaning of happiness: the quest for freedom of the spirit in modern psychology and the wisdom of the East a b c Guy, David. "Alan Watts Reconsidered". Tricycle: The Buddhist Review . Retrieved 15 October 2019.

Society wouldn’t let me be who I was. I was zany and irrepressible, and they would let me have NONE of that!In early 1951 Alan relocated to San Francisco, where, at Dr. Frederic Spiegelberg’s invitation, he began teaching Buddhism at the American Academy of Asian Studies (which later became the California Institute of Integral Studies). Drawing quite a crowd, his classes at the Academy soon blossomed into evening lectures open to the public and spilled over to local coffee houses frequented by Beat poets and writers. In 1950, Watts married Dorothy DeWitt. He moved to San Francisco in early 1951 to teach. They began a family that grew to include five children: Tia, Mark, Richard, Lila, and Diane. The couple separated in the early 1960s after Watts met Mary Jane Yates King (called "Jano" in his circle) while lecturing in New York. Perhaps the foremost interpreter of Eastern disciplines for the contemporary West, Alan Watts had the rare gift of ‘writing beautifully the un-writable’. Watts begins with scholarship and intellect and proceeds with art and eloquence to the frontiers of the spirit. A fascinating entry into the deepest ways of knowing.” His quote "We think of time as a one-way motion," from his lecture Time & The More It Changes appears at the beginning of the season 1 finale of the Loki TV show along with quotes from Neil Armstrong, Greta Thunberg, Malala Yousafzai, Nelson Mandela, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and Maya Angelou [66] [67] Alan Watts, "Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life, Season 1 (1959)" and Season 2 (1960), KQED public television series, San Francisco

The Modern Mystic: A New Collection of the Early Writings of Alan Watts, ed. John Snelling and Mark Watts Having read this and several other works by Watts while still in high school, I am unsure of a proper rating. At the time he was very influential, but then I knew so little and was so very unhappy. Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” This Is It - Alan Watts and friends in a spontaneous musical happening (Long playing album - MEA LP 1007) In the book, he talks about how important a balance in life is, as we would not know what is good without bad, what love feels like without knowing how it feels to hate someone, how important and good it feels like to be happy without suffering through something tragic and feeling sad. Understanding the Balance

The first part - seeing the big picture - is easy. It's the second part that's excruciatingly difficult - because we're still weightless, as he says. Groundless. And lost in space. Upon returning to the United States, Watts recorded two seasons of a television series (1959–1960) for KQED public television in San Francisco, "Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life". [28]